Reports: Uber Driver Charged With BC Student’s Rape in September – The Heights

A feminine Boston College scholar was allegedly raped by an Uber driver in September, after which was dropped off again at BC, in accordance with courtroom tapes obtained by TheBoston Herald.

The Boston Globeinitially reported that a lady was sexually assaulted and dropped off at BC by the driving force, however the leaked tape, which The Herald didn’t make public, revealed that the lady was a BC scholar.

The perpetrator, Luis Baez, raped the scholar in his Uber automotive on Sept. 29, 2016, whereas she was intoxicated, prosecutors stated on Tuesday. She was allegedly raped 3 times, in a parking zone and at a number of different websites, earlier than she was dropped off at BC. She then instantly reported the incident to the Boston College Police Department.

BCPD was unable to remark instantly at press time. The Office of the Dean of Students stated it didn’t have any further info to what was reported by The Globe.

Baez’s protection lawyer, John Benzan, stated his shopper denies the fees towards him. He stated he drove the lady for less than 22 minutes and subsequently claimed it was not potential he might have completed what she alleged in that brief a time period.

The Middlesex district lawyer’s workplace stated Baez was driving underneath the identify Pedro Valentin. He was ordered held on $2,500 money bail and ordered to avoid the BC campus.

The tape obtained by the Herald reveals that Newton District Court Judge Mary Beth Heffernan reduce arguments brief and demanded the defendant pay $2,500 bail as an alternative of the prosecution’s request for $100,000 bail and GPS monitoring of Baez’s location.

Baez was recognized to be a part of the Mozart Street Gang and had been beforehand prosecuted and deported. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are in search of Baez however haven’t discovered him, in accordance with The Herald. Massachusetts started utilizing background checks in January on drivers for journey-hailing corporations.